Example sentences of "[prep] some years the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
| 2 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 3 | For some years the family had lived on the island of Rousay , where both the Social Work and Education Departments were actively involved with them , having been alerted by the school to concerns over the welfare of the children . |
| 4 | Few of the elderly male messengers now remained , and for some years the Department had recruited women . |
| 5 | For some years the town 's symbol has been The Tower on the Moor . |
| 6 | For some years the convict prisons , already the responsibility of central government , remained technically separate entities , but both were brought under the dominant authority of one man , Sir Edmund Du Cane . |
| 7 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 8 | For some years the DES collected statistics from LEAs in which children had to be classified into these three headings . |
| 9 | For some years the SSD has funded a Centre for Integrated Living ( CIL ) , which is run by disabled people . |
| 10 | For some years the recordings of well-known choirs , such as King 's College , Cambridge , have had a steady and growing market . |
| 11 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 12 | For some years the local authority sent boxes of books which were changed monthly and which were distributed by volunteers from their homes or village halls on two evenings a week . |
| 13 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 14 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 15 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 16 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 17 | Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable . |
| 18 | Peak numbers were usually present in September or particularly October , but in some years the autumn peak was as late as November . |
| 19 | In some years the rite of Mass can serve our next and further Masses . |